[PATCH 3.2 57/77] mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null

Ben Hutchings
2015-12-24T15:45:24Z

From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.

Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or
not. And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc(). This is racy
because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check. This race results in BUG_ON in
huge_pte_alloc().

We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset()
returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else
block.

Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
this block, but that's not a problem because we have another
!pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that
case.)

Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2818,12 +2818,12 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(h - hstates);
+ } else {
+ ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
+ if (!ptep)
+ return VM_FAULT_OOM;
}

- ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
- if (!ptep)
- return VM_FAULT_OOM;
-
/*
* Serialize hugepage allocation and instantiation, so that we don't
* get spurious allocation failures if two CPUs race to instantiate